SPATIAL LISTENING: PERFORMANCE INTERVENTION
This sonic performance is the culminating event in Spatial Listening, a one-day series of listening events presented by Alex De Little at Goldsmiths CCA.
As a response to Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition On Discomfort, these events engage with Takala’s playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct. Spatial Listening stems from De Little’s ongoing project that seeks to create sonic relationships between individuals and their architectural environments.
De Little’s collective, multi-part experiment invites audiences to participate in sounding and listening as an alternative methodology of knowing, understanding and relating. As a perceptual tool, listening transforms the architectural environment from a visual landscape, rendering it instead as a dynamic time-space whose contours are perpetually modulated by sounds as received by listeners.
Throughout the day, a participatory installation will foreground these potent sonic modes, capturing real-time speech and movements within the gallery space. In the afternoon, an artist-led spatial listening workshop will build from breathwork and bodywork, enacting a series of engagements with the architectural spaces of the CCA. The day will end with this performance intervention by the artist, further introducing, recycling and layering sound to activate the installation.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher based in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a way to understand environment, self, and social relations. Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, and the Hepworth Wakefield. Alex completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of CAVE (Centre for Audio-Visual Experimentation) and an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research.
Harry Burgess is a musician and writer based in South East London. He is known as the vocalist in the avant-pop band Adult Jazz, whose debut album Gist Is arrived to much critical praise back in 2014. More recently, he formed the experimental duo Offer (with PC Music’s Lil Data), published a collection of poetry and prose called Toffee Hammer, and, shared the solo work Live Scraps.
This sonic performance is the culminating event in Spatial Listening, a one-day series of listening events presented by Alex De Little at Goldsmiths CCA.
As a response to Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition On Discomfort, these events engage with Takala’s playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct. Spatial Listening stems from De Little’s ongoing project that seeks to create sonic relationships between individuals and their architectural environments.
De Little’s collective, multi-part experiment invites audiences to participate in sounding and listening as an alternative methodology of knowing, understanding and relating. As a perceptual tool, listening transforms the architectural environment from a visual landscape, rendering it instead as a dynamic time-space whose contours are perpetually modulated by sounds as received by listeners.
Throughout the day, a participatory installation will foreground these potent sonic modes, capturing real-time speech and movements within the gallery space. In the afternoon, an artist-led spatial listening workshop will build from breathwork and bodywork, enacting a series of engagements with the architectural spaces of the CCA. The day will end with this performance intervention by the artist, further introducing, recycling and layering sound to activate the installation.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher based in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a way to understand environment, self, and social relations. Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, and the Hepworth Wakefield. Alex completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of CAVE (Centre for Audio-Visual Experimentation) and an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research.
Harry Burgess is a musician and writer based in South East London. He is known as the vocalist in the avant-pop band Adult Jazz, whose debut album Gist Is arrived to much critical praise back in 2014. More recently, he formed the experimental duo Offer (with PC Music’s Lil Data), published a collection of poetry and prose called Toffee Hammer, and, shared the solo work Live Scraps.
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